security

WordPress is a wonderful CMS to use to bring your site online and manage your content. As your site gets more popular, you are more likely to face hack attacks. While the WordPress core is secure, there are things you can do to harden WordPress and protect your server against hack attacks. Here are 18 ways you can use plugins to monitor, protect, and recover your site (after a hack attack): [click to continue…]

Many of us have had to deal with hackers and malicious bots attacking our sites in the past. You can always use .htaccess or NGINX directives and other tools to get a handle on this issue. These bad bot blocking plugins can also prove useful:

iThemes Security: one of the best security plugins around. It gives you plenty of ways to lock down your site and stop attacks. You will be able to detect and block annoying bots and monitor your filesystem for unauthorized changes. [click to continue…]

Running plugins with vulnerabilities is one way to get your site hacked. Not everyone spends time to keep up with WordPress security news on a daily basis though. These 6 plugins help you identify and remove plugins with vulnerabilities fast:

In the past few years, we have covered plenty of plugins and scripts that can protect your login page. This is one of the main pages hackers attack all the time. Changing its URL is one way to reduce the number of bot attacks against your site. Move Login lets you do just that. It lets you display an error message when people reach your old login page. [click to continue…]